The Visible Human

In collaboration with University of Michigan
researchers, PSC is developing technologies for high-speed
networking and visualization for the National Library of Medicine's
Visible Human data. This project enhances anatomy training through
innovative, interactive viewing. Along with allowing retrieval of
anatomical imagery, such as the torso side-view shown here, the PSC
team is developing capability to select views arbitrarily, which
are then constructed in real time. In this case, a user selects a
curved pathway through the center of the spinal cord, and the
interface constructs a corresponding warped-plane frontal
cross-section, providing an extremely useful view that's otherwise
unavailable.